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I guess the underlying problem is some strange misbehaviour of the VIA cpu. It should be 100% i686 compatible, but from this experience I would bet it isn't...

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This may not be relevant to the issue, but VIA C3 CPUs have different capabilities as displayed by /proc/cpuinfo. Here's the contents of /proc/cpuinfo from tow different motherboards, both with C3 CPUs: